Bodhisattva in Contemplation
Marble
王祖世造思惟菩薩三尊像
中國
思惟菩薩面帶微笑，右手食指輕觸嘴角，左手自然下垂放在右膝上，在蛟龍盤踞的雙樹下呈半跏坐，兩側各立一脇侍菩薩。透雕背光十分精緻，形式上融合枝葉、飛天及小化佛，輕巧靈逸，表現彌勒菩薩於龍華樹下思惟成佛之相，反映南北朝（386～589）彌勒信仰的盛行。
長方形台座正面浮雕博山形香爐及二蹲獅。背面刻發願文「天保二年（551）四月十八日佛弟子王祖世敬造思惟玉像一區上為龍天八部七世先亡現在眷屬願共法界眾生下及昆蟻一時成佛」。
該像是以河北省曲陽地區白石所造，表現出溫潤渾圓的材質之美，並於其上貼金彩繪，是六世紀後半定州造像的通式。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 165.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Bodhisattva in Contemplation." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 165.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Bodhisattva in Contemplation" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:165.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Bodhisattva in Contemplation. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 165).
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